DrBenway:Weren't the Phillies actually pretty good when Dykstra played for them? Dang, I suppose I'll have to look that up. Not that we'd let a small thing like that get in the way of a headline anyway, right?

In any case, if this had happened and they had done it right, we wouldn't be hearing about it from Lenny.

Before the mid-2000s run, the Phillies had one winning season in about 15 years - 1993.

Joe_diGriz:DrBenway: Weren't the Phillies actually pretty good when Dykstra played for them? Dang, I suppose I'll have to look that up. Not that we'd let a small thing like that get in the way of a headline anyway, right?

In any case, if this had happened and they had done it right, we wouldn't be hearing about it from Lenny.

Before the mid-2000s run, the Phillies had one winning season in about 15 years - 1993.

Yep. I did go ahead and look it up. Only one winning season while he was there, and that was the year of the "Mitch Williams" World Series. I had forgotten how much they sucked in the years before and after that. So I retract my headline snark, submittereveryouare.

DrBenway:Weren't the Phillies actually pretty good when Dykstra played for them? Dang, I suppose I'll have to look that up. Not that we'd let a small thing like that get in the way of a headline anyway, right?

They beat Atlanta in the championship series in '93, and Atlanta had 104 wins that season.

During the last game of that series my band was playing a gig in Hilton Head. There was a big group of Phillies fans at the bar and they were loud. We had a PA system, so we were louder.

While I have no doubts the douchenozzles in the LA County Sheriff's Dept. are fully capable of doing such things, the fact that Dykstra claims this incident occurred 2 years ago, and is only now complaining about it (right on the heels of federal investigations of the LACSD being made public) makes me dubious of his veracity.

I remember some reporter ask one of his former teammates what type of person he was and the guy said something along the lines of this "Lenny is a pretty good guy, except for when he is trying to rope you into some hair brained get rich quick money scheme, which was most of the time."

cefm:While I have no doubts the douchenozzles in the LA County Sheriff's Dept. are fully capable of doing such things, the fact that Dykstra claims this incident occurred 2 years ago, and is only now complaining about it (right on the heels of federal investigations of the LACSD being made public) makes me dubious of his veracity.